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		<title>A home for the unwanted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WCRP: “I want to go back home. Can you take me?” a mentally challenged woman asked me while my friend and I were visiting the Safe House near Huay Malai in Kanchnaburi province, Thailand. But for this woman, and many of her fellow patients, the Safe House serves as the only “home” such individuals can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1350</link>
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		<title>20 villagers forced to porter goods for army in Kyaninnseikyi Township</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HURFOM, Kyainnseikyi: Around 20 people from Thaung Waing village were tortured and arrested for land mine clearing and portering by Light Infantry Battalions (LIB) No. 404 and 406 under controls of the Military Operation Management Command No. 8 based in Kyainnseikyi Township, Karen State, Burma.
According to a resident from Thaung Waing village, on February 3rd, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1348</link>
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		<title>Social Responsibility of Multinational Companies in Burma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASEAN, China and other countries have expectations for Burma’s 2010 elections because these governments’  leaders are concerned about being able to invest in Burma for trade or exploitation of natural resources.
During 1993, when multi-national gas and oil companies such as France’s Total and the US’s Unocal came and invested in Burma, they did not demonstrate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1345</link>
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		<title>Oil and Water: The Impact of Government salary increases on  democratic prospects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction:
In early January 2010, the Burmese government State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) announced a nationwide salary increase for all government employees. Under the announcement No. 104/2010, from the SPDC Department of Finance and Customs in Nayphidaw, the pay hike was implemented concurrent with the SPDC’s heavy-handed campaign to secure civilian support during the 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1341</link>
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		<title>Pa’an villagers flee to KNU territory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HURFOM, Pa’an: According to information received by HURFOM’s field reporter in the first week of March 2010, more than 100 villagers from Kawee Noe village, in Karen State’s Pa’an Township, have fled from their homes into Karen National Union territory (KNU), after several weeks of forced labor at the hands of the Democratic Karen Buddhist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1339</link>
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		<title>Community confusion and tension mount after Burmese and Karen army visits demand support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HURFOM: Villagers who base in Ye Township and Thanbyuzayat Township are  increasingly confused as pressure to act for or against the coming 2010 election  mounts, from both the Karen National Union (KNU) and Burmese government State  Peace and Development Council (SPDC) troops.
According to a headman who asked the HURFOM field reporter to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1337</link>
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		<title>The child’s life, hopeless in the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WCRP: Early in the morning I was awoken by the chickens beautiful singing. I opened my eyes and looked around my room. Through the window I could see the mist falling to the earth in small droplets and my neighbors cooking rice or praying to the monks.
I stood up and headed to the bathroom for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1333</link>
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		<title>DKBA extortion plagues Kawkareik Township in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kawkareik: HURFOM learned on February 7th of this year that Brigade No. 999 of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), based in Karen State’s Kawkareik Township, has been collecting portering fees from 6 villages in southern Kawkareik Township since the beginning of 2010.
Villagers informed HURFOM that starting at the beginning of the year, Captain Saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1330</link>
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		<title>Joint Burmese column presses 50 villagers into porter service in Kyainnseikyi Township</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HURFOM:  Recently a combined force from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 402 and the State Peace and Development council (SPDC) Military Operations Management Command (MOMC) No. 8, attempted to approach the area near Khonnawar village, Kyainnseikyi Township, and were ambushed by troops from Karen National Union (KNU) brigade No. 6, according to a Khonnawar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1323</link>
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		<title>Three Pagodas villagers forced to gather construction materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HURFOM, TPP: Burmese army Tactical Command (TC) No.3, based in Anankwin village, Three Pagoda Township, Karen State, has forced residents to collect building materials of bamboo poles, wood planks, and leaves for roof thatch and wall packing, for construction on the Tactical Command’s battalion headquarters.
On Feb 3rd, TC No. 3’s colonel Kyaw Myint, commanded headmen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1319</link>
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